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Go to the secret place where you can turn on outgoing protection: Click Start, type firewall, and select Windows Firewall with Advanced Security. Click Windows Firewall Properties. The first three of the resulting dialog box’s four tabs contain an Outbound Connections drop-down menu. In all three, select Block.
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The net result was that I couldn’t connect to Internet. What wrong did I do? Does this suggestion block Internet?
Well, you’re blocking the outbound connections, how would you connect the Internet?
Vista Firewall with Advanced Security could block programs to connect the Internet, did you block your browser?
The outbound portion of the vista firewall isn’t simple to use and not recommended
for the faint of heart.
One of the reasons why a secondary firewall is usually used.